jensen+ackles

====jensen ross ackles was born in dallas, texas on march 1st 1978 to Alan Roger Ackles, an actor, and Donna Joan Shaffer. his parents chose the name "Jensen" because it was uncommon. Ackles has an older brother, Joshua, and a younger sister, Mackenzie, and is of Irish, English, and Scottish ancestry. He graduated from Dartmouth Elementary School in 1990, Apollo Junior High School in 1993, and Lloyd V. Berkner High School in Richardson, Texas in 1996], where he was a baseball and lacrosse player. He planned to study sports medicine at Texas Tech University and become a physical therapist before moving to Los Angeles to become an actor.====

After modeling off and on as a young child, Ackles began to concentrate on an acting career in 1996. He appeared in several guest roles on Mr. Rhodes, Sweet Valley High, and Cybill before joining the cast of the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives as Eric Brady in 1997. He won a 1998 Soap Opera Digest Award for Best Male Newcomer and went on to be nominated three times (in 1998, 1999, and 2000) for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series for his work on Days of Our Lives.

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